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Unwanted DX? Any instances where DX is more of a nuisance?

tvnut said:
And the original owners eventually got a Canadian license. CKND was born.
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I did not know that!

My evenings in Winnipeg usually don't include Canadian TV. My evening routine in Winnipeg usually involve dinner at Montana's(up the street), then American TV sports in the hotel room. Or, if the game I want to watch isn't on in the hotel room, I head over to Earl's....sports bar in the mall across the streett from Montana with a bizillion TVs. :)
 
cyberdad said:
I did not know that!

My evenings in Winnipeg usually don't include Canadian TV. My evening routine in Winnipeg usually involve dinner at Montana's(up the street), then American TV sports in the hotel room. Or, if the game I want to watch isn't on in the hotel room, I head over to Earl's....sports bar in the mall across the streett from Montana with a bizillion TVs. :)
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Are the original owners Canadian citizens? I find it odd that the same owners would be able to own a US and a Canadian license.
 
Gordon McLendon, the radio whiz, had bought KCND in 1966. It was in Pembina, N.D., population 625. But the signal made it – barely – to Winnipeg, and KCND had a studio there. It was eventually carried on cable in Winnipeg, the third station along with CBC and CTV stations.

Eventually the CRTC opened applications for a new Winnipeg station. McLendon, seeing the CRTC was also creating the sim-sub rule, got the lead applicant for the new station, Izzy Asper and CanWest, to buy the assets of KCND while they put CKND on the air. The switch came in August 1975. KCND even simulcast CKND for a day.

The new Channel 12 in Pembina had to build a new tower, and CKND took the old one down.
 
tvnut said:
Gordon McLendon, the radio whiz, had bought KCND in 1966. It was in Pembina, N.D., population 625. But the signal made it – barely – to Winnipeg, and KCND had a studio there. It was eventually carried on cable in Winnipeg, the third station along with CBC and CTV stations.
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Wow! Gordon McLendon, of all people, was involved!

I've been through Pembina, North Dakota "If you blink , you'll miss it" is almost literally true. BUT in addition to having a network TV outlet, Pemina, the little wide spot in the road, has a major thoroughfare in Winnipeg named after it. Pembina Highway. Which turns into Manitoba 75 south of the city. A four-lane highway, which becomes Interstate 29 when it crosses the U.S. border.
 
cyberdad said:
Made me think of KVFD-TV, Ch 21 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. They took their entire NBC network feed directly from WHO-TV, Ch 13, from Des Moines over the air. This arrangement even included network programming delayed by WHO-TV, I happened to date a girl for a time from a town near Fort Dodge, and once got to witness the setup first hand when I spent a weekend at her family's home. For the most part, things were pretty seamless, but sure enough, I did catch a couple of quick glimpses of WHO ID cards before they were quickly covered up vy KVFD"s.
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Back in ancient times in the 50's San Diego's ch 8 (CBS), and 10 (then NBC) both had large receiving antennas at their Mt Soledad xmitter sites to pick up LA's ch 2 (CBS) and 4 (NBC) just in case of a microwave failure.
 
As I spend part of my spare time going through old VHS recordings, I've noticed the 'wrong station's ID' on some recordings. I have a KAPP Yakima recording from 1993 where the KVEW Tri-Cities ID shows up briefly at sign-off time instead of KAPP. Makes me wonder if they were still feeding KAPP off the KVEW feed and inserting local stuff even back then. 11PM news was from Tri-Cities and simulcast.

I've found a few examples of KCYU-LP (Fox) Yakima using the wrong ID...whether it was KBWU-LP 66 Tri-Cities (now KFFX-11) or on one tape of some classic movie from their early days as K53CY, I even saw a promo for an afternoon movie on *KAYU* Spokane! Co-owned, but nobody caught the wrong ID and let it run.
 
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